Skirt-holder.



. 15/709,862. Patented Sept. 30, I902.

- c. w. BAUGHMAN.

SKIRT HOLDER.

(Application filed Dec. i, 1900.)

(Io Iodai.)

UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

SKIRT-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 709,862, dated September30, 1902.

Application filed December 1, 1900. Serial No. 38,351. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES W. BAUGH- MAN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented anew and useful Skirt-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved skirt elevator and holder, the objectbeing to provide an exceedingly cheap and simple device which can beapplied to any of the skirtsnow in use and which can be quickly andeasily operated for the purpose of elevating the skirt and holding it insuch position, thereby permitting a woman to have the free use of bothhands While her skirt is so elevated.

With these objects in view the invention consists, essentially, of astrip of tape or other fabric having a series of rings attached thereto,a string passing through all of the said rings and attached to the skirtat its lower end, the upper end of said string passing through abuttonhole produced in the end of the strip and also through an openingin the skirt, said string being adapted to be secured in any suitablemanner after having elevated the skirt, whereby said skirt is maintainedin an elevated position.

The invention consists also in certain details of construction andnovelties of com bination, all of which will be fully describedhereinafter and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a Viewintended to show the practical application of my invention. Fig. 2 is aview showing a top portion of a skirt opened and illustrating myinvention.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view showing a portion of the inner side ofa skirt and my invention applied thereto, and Fig. 4 is a detail viewshowing a portion of the outer side of the skirt and illustrating oneform of fastening devicefor the elevating string or cord.

As-before stated, my invention can be applied to any kind of skirt, andin practice I prefer to arrangeit at one side, as most clearly shown inFigs. 1 and 2.

In carrying out my invention I employ a strip of fabric A, such as tapeor other suitable material, said strip being attached to the inner sideof the garment, preferably along the line of a seam and extending fromthe waistband downwardly. A series of rings B are attached to the innerface of the strip A by means of suitable straps C, said rings and strapsnormally resting fiat upon the face of the strip, as most clearly shownin Fig. 3. Au elevating cord or string D passes through all of the ringsand has its lower end secured to the skirt, as shown at E, said endbeing preferably secured in the seam. The upper end of the cord orstring passes through a buttonhole F, worked in the upper end of thestrip A, and out through an opening or buttonhole G, worked also in thegarment and registering with the buttonhole F.

Hindicates afastening hook or clasp adapted to receive and secure theupper end of the cord or string D. This fastening-hook H is preferablysecured upon the waistband of a dress and may be of any desiredconstruction. If preferred, a hook can be secured to the string and aneye can be fastened upon the waistband of the skirt; but in order toreceive and hold the cord at any point I prefer a hook, such as shown inFig. 4, which will receive and hold the string at any point desired. Thestring or cord is provided with any suitable construction of tassel atits outer end, and when it is desired to elevate the skirt the cord ispulled up through the openings F and G, thereby elevating the lower endof the cord, which being attached to the skirt elevates it at one sideand forcing the string into the clasping-hook it will be socurelyfastened, and the skirt elevated in this manner will remain so elevatedwithoutfurther attention, and the wearer will then have the free use ofboth hands, thereby avoiding the necessity of holding the skirt with onehand.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

As an article of manufacture, a skirt-elevator comprising an integralstrip of fabric, a series of depending rings carried thereby, said stripadapted to be sewed to the inside of a skirt, said strip also having aperforation at its upper end, adapted to register forations andadjustably secured to the holdwith a similar perforation in thewaistband ins: device on the outer side of the Waistband ofa skirt, anda cord, one end of which is of the skirt, substantially as described.

adapted to be secured to the inner side of a CHARLES W. BAUGHMAN. skirtat or near the lower end of said strip \Vitnesses: and its opposite endto pass upward through WARREN B. CLOUD,

the depending rings and the registering per- 0. PFSILOOTT.

